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See Wikipedia's 1799 Page and the 1799 Calendar; Brainy History also has a 1799 Page as does Jack Lynch
Read texts of 1799, such as Martha Ballad's Diary, 1799; Kentucky Resolution;Sir William Eton's A Survey of the Turkish Empire, 1799; Jane Austen's 1799 Letters to her sister Cassandra
Other sites of interest include (1) The Death of George Washington, 1799
Elizabeth Gunning. The Gipsy Countess: a Novel.
Mary Hays. The Victim of Prejudice. (Available from Broadview Press)
Mrs. Eliza Phelp Parsons. The Valley of St. Gotthard: a Novel
Jane West. A Tale of the Times. (Reprinted in Garland Publications' Feminist Controversy in England Series)
This page features 2 color plates and 2 black-and-white plates. Two of the plates are of morning dress and two are of afternoon dress. One features a young child as well as two women in fashionable clothing.
Court and fashion descriptions from the original text are available here; there is also 1 engraving which accompanied a short story. See also the 1799 supplement with a plate of Vauxhall Gardens.
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Morning Dress,1799. Note the Grecian pattern on the shawl and the way the hat is modelled on a Greek helmet. | Male Dress, 1799. Plate no. 237, labelled "An 8. Collet haut. Pantalon large." Millia Davenport writes of this plate in The Book of Costume. Volume I. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1948): "The `shaggy head' to which Walpole objected in the young English men of 1791, is worn in `dog's ears' with an English swallow-tail coat of cloth, the cuffs of which turn down to cover the knuckles ... while the chin is buried in a knotted kerchief-cravat. English stick. High-crowned straw hat with a narrow rolled brim, is trimmed with a buckle, which has moved to the hat after leaving the shoe" (721). | July, 1799, plate no. 18. This wrapping gown with a tassled sash looks wonderfully comfortable. The long sleeves flare at the ends, extending over the wrist. |
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